Professor Le's Course Material for all Students
Critical Thinking/Logic
Moore and Parker, Critical Thinking, Ch. 1: What is Critical Thinking? (De Anza Phil 003, 004) Word Doc
Moore and Parker, Critical Thinking, Ch. 7: Variety of Arguments (De Anza Phil 003, 004) Word Doc
Moore and Parker, Critical Thinking, Ch. 11: Inductive Arguments (De Anza Phil 003, 004) Word Doc
Inductive and Deductive Arguments Master Outline (De Anza Phil 001, 003, 004) (PDF)
Happiness
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Book I, Book II (Eudemonia)
Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness, Ch. 2: Sources of Happiness (Text)
Eric Weiner, Geography of Happiness, Ch. 2 Switzerland (Text)
Ethics
Introduction to Basic Ethical Theories (Outline)
Utilitarianism (Outline)
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (Text)
Immanuel Kant, The Categorical Imperative (Text)
Carol Gilligan, The Ethics of Care (Text)
God/Religion
Dawkins, The God Delusion: Ch. 5: The Roots of Religion, The God Delusion (Text)
Dawkins, The God Delusion: Ch. 8: What's Wrong with Religion, The God Delusion (Text)
Steven Jay Gould, "Non-overlapping Magisteria" (Text)
The Dalai Lama, "Buddhism, Christianity, and Prospects for World Religions" (Text)
Arguments for the Existence of God (Outline)
God and the Problem of Evil (Outline)
Phenomenology and Existentialism
Solomon, From Rationalism to Existentialism, Ch.1: Kant
Solomon, From Rationalism to Existentialism, Ch. 2: Hegel
Solomon, From Rationalism to Existentialism, Ch. 3: Kierkegaard
Solomon, From Rationalism to Existentialism, Ch. 4: Nietzsche
Jean Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
Social/Political Philosophy
Plato, Republic, Book VII: Allegory of the Cave
Aristotle, Politics, Book IV: Constitutional Systems
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Ch. 13, The Natural Condition HTML
Ch. 14, Laws of Nature HTML
John Locke, The Second Treatise on Government (PDF)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (Full E-book)
American Political Thought
John Adams, Dissent of the Pennsylvania Minority, and Richard Henry Lee (Text)
James Madison, "Federalist Paper No. 10" (Text)
Economy/American Consumer Society
Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, Ch. 1: A Global Family Portrait
Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. Mc World, Ch. 7: Television and MTV: Mc World's Noisy Soul
Benjamin Barber, Consumed, Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 5
Moore and Parker, Critical Thinking, Ch. 1: What is Critical Thinking? (De Anza Phil 003, 004) Word Doc
Moore and Parker, Critical Thinking, Ch. 7: Variety of Arguments (De Anza Phil 003, 004) Word Doc
Moore and Parker, Critical Thinking, Ch. 11: Inductive Arguments (De Anza Phil 003, 004) Word Doc
Inductive and Deductive Arguments Master Outline (De Anza Phil 001, 003, 004) (PDF)
Happiness
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Book I, Book II (Eudemonia)
Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness, Ch. 2: Sources of Happiness (Text)
Eric Weiner, Geography of Happiness, Ch. 2 Switzerland (Text)
Ethics
Introduction to Basic Ethical Theories (Outline)
Utilitarianism (Outline)
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (Text)
Immanuel Kant, The Categorical Imperative (Text)
Carol Gilligan, The Ethics of Care (Text)
God/Religion
Dawkins, The God Delusion: Ch. 5: The Roots of Religion, The God Delusion (Text)
Dawkins, The God Delusion: Ch. 8: What's Wrong with Religion, The God Delusion (Text)
Steven Jay Gould, "Non-overlapping Magisteria" (Text)
The Dalai Lama, "Buddhism, Christianity, and Prospects for World Religions" (Text)
Arguments for the Existence of God (Outline)
God and the Problem of Evil (Outline)
Phenomenology and Existentialism
Solomon, From Rationalism to Existentialism, Ch.1: Kant
Solomon, From Rationalism to Existentialism, Ch. 2: Hegel
Solomon, From Rationalism to Existentialism, Ch. 3: Kierkegaard
Solomon, From Rationalism to Existentialism, Ch. 4: Nietzsche
Jean Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
Social/Political Philosophy
Plato, Republic, Book VII: Allegory of the Cave
Aristotle, Politics, Book IV: Constitutional Systems
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Ch. 13, The Natural Condition HTML
Ch. 14, Laws of Nature HTML
John Locke, The Second Treatise on Government (PDF)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (Full E-book)
American Political Thought
John Adams, Dissent of the Pennsylvania Minority, and Richard Henry Lee (Text)
James Madison, "Federalist Paper No. 10" (Text)
Economy/American Consumer Society
Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, Ch. 1: A Global Family Portrait
Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. Mc World, Ch. 7: Television and MTV: Mc World's Noisy Soul
Benjamin Barber, Consumed, Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 5